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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 121, 16 February 1926, Page 7

DAMAGE BY FIRE ♦ BOARDINGHOUSE DEMOLISHED. Br Tui.EGiiAi’n.—Pi.-Ess Association. Hastings, February 15. A seven-roomed house owned by Mr. C. W. Tipping, and occupied by Mrs. Lawton as a boarding-house, in the commercial centre of the town, was burnt to a shell this morning. The flames had a good hold when the fire was discovered, a,nd the occupants escaped with only what they stood up in. When the brigade arrived the flames had full charge, bnt it confined the outbreak to the building, and made a fine save of Poll's photographic studio and Lambert’s engineering shop, on either side. The insurances are on the furniture and effects. .£l5O in the Alliance office; on the house <£(soo, in the National office. BUSINESS PREMISES DESTROYED. Dannevirke, February 15. A fire at Norsewood on Sunday- morning destroyed J. Mathias’s draper’s shop, and also the branch offices of Knight and Dunn, solicitors, and the branch office of the Bank'of Noyv South Wales. Details of the insurances are not available. but Mnthias’s short and stock were covered in the Atlas Office. Be prepared. See that you have adequate insurance on vour house and furniture Consult the Mercantile and General Insurance Co.. Ltd., Panama Street It is a local company with all its capital invested in New Zealand, therefore prompt settlements.—Advt.